The Sonic Self
Subtitle: Musical Subjectivity and Signification (Advances in Semiotics)
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: February 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9780253337542
Subjects: Aesthetics; Theory of music & musicology; Music Acoustics And Physics; Philosophy And Esthetics Of Music; Music/Songbooks; Music; Instruction & Study - Theory; General; Musical analysis; Philosophy and aesthetics; Semiotics
First sentence: I would like to start with a question so simple (and rhetorical) as to appear silly: What distinguishes a performing musician from an athlete in a performance sport?